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Re: Show HN: My girlfriend's startup

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Yes, a 25 year old female founder. 3 engineers, 1 ex-radio industry veteran, and ~5 other team players. She got started last year, went through a rough patch with a different designer+developer team, had to rethink everything, and then in Jan of 2013 -- landed an amazing marketing opportunity for the site which will air later this year. Very proud of their accomplishments, especially in a city like Austin where consu…

Interesting site. There are parts that left me a little confused. Are they basically building a marketplace + online tools? If so, the text 'Jellifi is looking for event planners, bands, rental services, entertainers, caters, models, photographers, bars, venues, and more' should perhaps be 'Jellifi has a network for local event planners, bands, rental services, entertainers, caters, models, photographers, bars, venues, and more'. The point is that when I see 'Save Time Booking Your Next Event', I wonder 'how' - and was hoping for an answer there.

The other question is, who is going to be paying on the site - event organizers or those getting gigs? (Both is fine, but it is not clear from the site).

As someone who might organize one or two big events a year, I feel like if I pay, I would like to pay per event for help. (I guess I could consider paying throughout the year, but I find it hard to understand a value proposition that would matter in between my events).

Re: Show HN: My girlfriend's startup

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It looks great to me. My main problem is that she asked me to give over my personal information before I can really do anything. I chose "Birthday" (my birthday is coming up) and I wanted to see what kind of suggestions would come up, but the first thing I see is "Give us all your information and create an account", but I don't particularly want to do that just yet. Can't she wait and ask for that at the end, when I presumably do something like hit a "Create This Event" button?

Re: Show HN: My girlfriend's startup

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Main call to action seems confused -- text suggests that you're looking for suppliers, button underneath suggests you're looking for buyers. The "event planners" you're looking to supply are probably not enticed by the "Plan Event Free" button. Maybe split it in half to appeal to each?

Re: Show HN: My girlfriend's startup

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How do you pronounce "jellifi"? Jellify? Jellifee? Jellifih?

Was the original idea for it to be http://jellifi.sh, but they changed their minds and went with jellifi.com?

This is something they should figure out - if I tell someone "just go to jellifi.com" there's a decent chance they won't know how to spell it. So perhaps look into making the name more obviously spellable (jellify.com), extend to jellyfish.com, grab all the alternate domains, or work hard on your SEO so even misspelling it still nets you the right site. :)

Re: Show HN: My girlfriend's startup

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Good layout...I like the big call to action with the rest of the page being devoted to a semi-walkthrough of what you'll find.

However, the "call to action" button text should be fixed. Currently, it reads: "Plan Event Free". It looks like a typo was made, though I understand you wanted to keep the text short...but right now, it looks like an amateurish grammar mistake. Perhaps, these might work:

"Free: Plan an Event" "Plan an Event for Free"

Or separate the text into a button label and header:

   Try it for free:
   Plan an Event


edit: Another suggestion: Use geolocation to narrow, by default, the services listed here: https://jellifi.com/service

Right now, it simply shows everything that's on the site, which immediately, in my mind, triggers a "there's a bunch of unfiltered spam listings here that I won't be interested in"...even though it looks very nice. But a little personalization will help a long ways.

And if the listings are too sparse to personalize it for most users, then limit the selection to just the cities you've focused on. No shame in saying "We've just launched in Austin, TX and San Francisco, SF. Follow us on Twitter to see updates when we open in other cities!"

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